Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. Please take a moment to read through our Privacy Policy
that will tell you a bit about how we handle the information you supply and what other information we collect.

General for all information submitted to Shipspotting is that we will never release name
or other personal information about a Member without the permission of that Member. We reserve the right to distribute aggregated demographic information provided by Members.

Information we collect
In the registration process you submit personal data. This is called Personally Identifiable Information,
and could be for example your name, age, and e-mail address.
From time to time in the future we may offer additional features, services, and promotional opportunities
that would require you to submit Personally Identifiable Information to participate.

We also collect what is called Anonymous Information, exemplified by your IP address, the type of browser you use,
the pages on our Sites that you have visited, and the advertisements that you have clicked on.
WE DO NOT match your Personally Identifiable Information to your Anonymous Information. What you do and where you go is your business only.
We use this aggregated information solely to be able to optimize the website based on how our visitors use it.

Cookies
Like many Internet sites, we also use cookies. We do this to better support services for registered users
and to collect statistics on how our website is used. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer
and is stored on your hard drive. When you visit our Site(s) the cookie identifies your computer to us so that you do not have to re-register each time you visit.
We may also use cookies to measure the traffic to our Sites and the use of different services and features of the Sites.

Advertisers that appear on Shipspotting may place cookies on your computer and their use of the information stored on those
cookies is subject to their own privacy policies. You should visit their sites to learn about their information practices.
Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Shipspotting cookies.

You can enable cookies in your browser. This might result in loss of some features on Shipspotting.com, for example logon for registered users.
Please also note that other websites that uses cookies might not be able to perform its best with cookies turned off.

Advertising practice
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site.
These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you.
These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information.
To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit networkadvertising.org.

How to Enable Cookies
To enable cookies, follow the instructions below for the browser brand and version you are using.
Mozilla Firefox (1.0 final release and earlier) : Go to the Tools menu, Select Options, Select the Privacy icon in the left panel,
Check the box corresponding to Allow sites to set cookies, Click OK to save changes.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x : Select Internet Options from the Tools menu, Click on the Security tab,
Click the Custom Level button, Scroll down to the Cookies section. To enable: Set Allow cookies that are stored on your computer to Enable, Set Allow per-session cookies to Enable. Click OK.

The exchange between Shipspotting and the Member of information such as passwords or electronic mail may not be secure given the current state of the Internet.
Shipspotting encourages Members to change their passwords frequently.

Communication
Postings and other communications with Shipspotting are not private and may be published
and edited at the discretion of Shipspotting unless specifically instructed otherwise.